Phone randomly calls contacts

My phone sometimes randomly calls numbers in my contacts list. Phone is on but keys not pressed, phone just calls a number... Usually it is my Mom and Dad... go figure... but it does that sometimes when I go in and out of coverage areas, my phone will just dial my parents number. I know I have great parents... even my phone loves 'em. Does this happen to anyone else????
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Two possible reasons:
1. The "Call" key is somehow jammed
2. You have some application installed on your device which does these calls.

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